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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1907, Page 7

A imitation from (lie Wellington Sacicty 0* Professional iiusicians is to wait •upon the City Council at its next meeting to urge that the council appoint an organist to give recitals on the Town Hail organ during the coming year. This week's Gazette contains a revised regulation concerning the taking of . mullet on the shores of the North Island. It is made pn tho lines of the recent promise o" the Minister of Marina not to prohibit fishing for mullet on the West Coast of this island. Tho Supreme Court will bo closed for the Christmas holidays froru 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon until 3rd January. Tli3 long vacation, of the court dates frcrai to-day until 31sL January. During this time (excepting •during holidays mentioned) the Supremo Court Office will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., For three Months now Mr. Georgo Shirtcliffe has liad a notio? of motion on the order paper of tho Harbour Board emphasising the need for widening Queen's Wharf. At tho meeting of the board yesterday th? notic-o was shelved on>"e agpin for lack of time to discuss. After Mr. Shirtcliffe had registered his protect against this delay, it was mutually agreed to deal with the question at a special meeting to be held early in January. On the eve of launching out to tak3 her place amongst the pleasure launches of Wellington tho Nidia, a, locally-built steam craft, met her doom a clay or two ago. Soon after being placed in the water at Oriental Bay she camo ashore. At midnight on tho same date she was floated off, but mishap followed mishap until her youthful owners, clc- . prived of an attend ing. punt, wers compelled to let the launch drift ashoro. She is now lying at Oriental Bay a complete wreck. The establishment of a Presbyterian Orphanage in Wellington is a subject which has been laid before St. John's Young Women's ' Bible Class. Already tlvare is an institution of the kind in Dunedin, and tho General Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church has under contemplation the establishment of a large main orphanage at Auckland to serve , as a home for tho orphans of Presbyterians throughout tho Dominion. If this scheme is carried out the Dunedin institution and tho proposed home in Wellington will be used as receiving homes where tho children can be temporarily housed until they are removed to Auckland. The celerity with which Wellington motomen apply their brakes in emorgancies, and their coolness under severe stress of circumstances commands the admiration of a correspondent who witnessed tho accident to a girl named , Lorna Snow in Willis-stroet, as reported yesterday. The motorman, on that oc1 casion, in tho opinion of tho correspondent, saved the girl's life by his promptitude to the fraction of a second. "I am conversant with the working of electric tramways in many distant lands," writes the correspondent, "and, from my experience of your Wellington system, I think that the management is tip be congratulated on\the very few accidents that obtain. This, I think, is largely due to the excellent class of motormen and conductors which is em ' ployed, for in no part of tho world have I seen a superior class of motormen and conductors." In reply to "J.D.," who asks for a cure for blight in cabbage, our contributor "Experience" says: — "This is not o-wy to answer. It is something like raying. My dog's dead ; did hedie of? Enquirers should give come particulars as a help to decide what is wrong. If the trouble 'J.D. is afflicted with is of a fungoidal nature, tho remedy will probable be sulphate of copper applied as Bordeaux mixture. If it is insect pests, the remedy will be tar water," or, better still, amraoniacal liquor, from the gas-house. This was at one time a waste product, to be had for asking ; I am not sure that such is now the case. If the- liquor can be obtained,' dilute ib .with 12 to 16 times its bulk with water, and use it freely on plants and soil ; it is a powerful manuro as well as insecticide. 'J.D. ■would do well to -forward leaves of his cabbage to ths Government Biologist, Wellington, who will define the disease or trouble, and send printed directions freo of all cost." Publication hy one of the morning papers of particulars concerning the financial side, of tho scheme for reclamation at Evans Bay was referred to at the City Council meeting last night. The Mayor stated that it was very much to bo regretted that the information had been supplied, and that the paper had published it, because- it was a matter that should have been kspt absolutely private in tho interests of tho peojple. He referred only to certain portions of tho report marked "private, and confidential." "He- impressed that upon the councillors at the time ; also upon the reporters. In the past the press representatives had always been trustworthy when asked no v t to publish anything. Continuing, his Worship said that in future if any re-porters present at a council meeting were party to such a gross breach of privilege; the paper concerned would be notified that its representatives would not be permitted to bo present when confidential matters were- being discussed. Mr. Keir Hardie, who is due to arlivo in Wellington, about 27th December, Was referred to at the meeting of the City Council last evening. The Mayor stated that it had become the habit of local bodies throughout New Zealand to take seriously a circular sent by a County Council in Hawke's Bay, which desired to give a lead, with regard to the treatment that should be accorded the visitor. He proposed to reply to the letter from tlus body on somewhat tho samo terms as he had previously expressed regarding tiw matter. Tho more information, he received tho moro it was demonstrated that the cablegrams had not been reliabl-a. Later news showed that Mr. Keir Hardie had been particularly careful in the views he enunciated while in India. Ho did not, as was supposed, always agree | with the prejudices of the Indians. For instance, ho had strongly opposed the opinion that there should be government by universal suffrage in India, although he had certainly supported the opinion that educated Indians should ) take part in the government of that country. Mr. Morley himself hud adopted that view by promoting Indians to the Council of India. Motor Cars. — We have just opened a shipment of Enfield and Sluart Motor Cars, and have every conffc?ence in recommending tho 1908 mode.l as a British car of the highest class of manufacture. Immediate delivery. Ask for a trial run. Inglis Bros., sole New Zealand agents, Willis-street ; motor garage, Harrisstreet. — Advt. Xew Customs Tariff. — Information refording changes c,in bo suppiied by tho lew Zealand Express Company, Ltd., 2(i Customhouse-quay. Telephone No. 2410. —Advt. Holiday anticipations arc uppermoH in the minds of mast people just at present, cod tho qtiestion of where and when to go for a change is being debated by tho great majority of the inhabitant* of Wellington to-day. One word of advice ran bo given to all holiday-makers of the fair sex, and that is to visit the =tore of 0. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-Flrect, for all travelling lcquisile". Uneqxialled value and variety civ ho found thero in sunshades, gloves, and hosiery. Jvrw styles in parasols just opened up and well worth inspection. Hosiery anil gloves isaia the world's leadina niakere.— Advt.